A digital tool where interactive lessons are streamed to the student's devices
Collaborating with Peers
'Collaborate!' feature offers an interactive bulletin board where students can interact with their peers and post to the board. Can be used to brainstorm, blog, running records, or assessment.
Teaches Digital Citizenship
Naerpod has a Digital Citizenship and Literacy package that provides resources to teach media literacy, technology applications, and coding in one program.
Modeling
Nearpod's 'Draw It' feature allows students to use an interactive whiteboards to submit answers that the teacher can then share with the class to model work and progressions.
Who Supports These Strategies?
Collaboration
Graham and Harris, et al. (2015) suggest that "strong results emerged in a later meta-analysis of elementary writing" (as cited in Friedrich, 2019, pp. 36-37)
Digital Citizenship
Karchmer-Klein (2019) believes that teaching digital literacy allws for students to practice "foundational digital skills" needed in the work life (p. 192).
Modeling
Cho and MacArthur (2011) and Philippakos and MacArthur (2016) noted that modeling is effective in helping students become better authors (as cited in Macarthur, (2019), p. 351)
REFERENCES
Cho, K., & MacArthur, C. (2011). Learning by reviewing. Journal of Educational Psychology, 103, 73-84.
Graham, S., MacArthur, C. & Hebert, M. (2019) Best Practices in Writing Instruction (3rd ed.). New York, NY: The Guilford Press.
Graham, S., Harris, K. R., & Santangelo, T. (2015). Research-based writing practices and the Common Core. Elementary School Journal, 115(4), 498-522
Karchmer-Klein, R. & Shinas, V. (2012). 21st century literacies in teacher education: Investigating multimodal texts in the context of an online graduate-level literacy and technology course. Research in the Schools, 19(1), 60-74.
NearPod. (2017). Reference media announcement [Motion Picture]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=57&v=fNES3Xei2S0.